EU/ROMANIA: Romanians pick up food portfolio at Brussels
Romania has been awarded the powerful agriculture portfolio in a proposed new European Commission, with former agriculture minister Dacian Ciolos formally proposed to take over from Mariann Fischer Boel.
UK: Tory think-tank attacks monopoly of 'Big Four' (MEM)
The UK’s major supermarkets should be broken up to stop them monopolising the market place, a leading adviser to the Conservative Party said yesterday (26 November).
UK/DENMARK: Hilton to supply Coop Danmark (REG)
UK meat group Hilton Food Group has struck a deal to supply Danish retailer Coop Danmark.
An ethical festive dinner?
27th November 2009 12:26
Across the Atlantic, our US cousins are probably right now gingerly waking up after yesterday's (26 November) Thanksgiving festivities. In under a mo...
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The just-food interview - Greencore
The just-food interview - Patrick Coveney, Greencore (MEM)
Greencore is a private-label giant with a business that spans from sandwiches to sauces and from pickles to puddings. However, with operations centred on convenience, the last year has been a tricky one for the Ireland-based group and its chief executive Patrick Coveney. In this month's just-food interview, Dean Best spoke with Coveney to find out how Greencore had navigated the downturn and what plans they have for the US - a fledgling but key market for the business.
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The food and drink industries of the ten countries that joined the European Union in 2004 have been transformed by this expansion of Europe’s borderless market. Food and drink companies and markets in the countries that joined the EU on 2007, Bulgaria and Romania, are facing a similar transformation. But what of the countries that are still knocking on the door of the EU for future membership? How will their food and drink sectors fare, assuming their countries are admitted. And how could this further expansion impact on the EU’s existing food and drink sectors? Here we investigate and analyse the potential results of more EU expansion.